Augmenting Study of Italian Using the Web

There are innumerable resources on the web for augmenting language study. Note that I say augmenting. It would be difficult using the resources that I have found to study a language comprehensively. The web simply provides what many language courses can not offer, a wide array of information in the language. If one has articles, daily news, stories, poems, cultural information, et cetera in the language, one is likely to find something that will give the extra desire to learn the language. Most teachers will agree that students with desire learn material better.

The language that I have concetrated on is Italian. I am currently taking a course in Italian (Ital 014) and am augmenting my study with the continually growing list of links.

Literature

• Italian literature in HTML or skip right to Pinnochio (illustrated).
• Caffè Poetel Homepage or skip to the Caffè Poetel Antologie (Anthologies).
• One Word, a list of poems written in birreria (in bierkeller).
• Progetto Manuzio, an ftp archive of italian literature (rarely accessable).
• Mario Bondi's (an Italian writer) works (including some Italian to English translations).

Reference

• Italian basics set up by
• Michael C. Martin

Sports

• Campionato Italiano di Calcio Italian Soccer/Football Championships
• The Italian Soccer Connection
• Italian Volleyball Jump Page
• Italian Formula 1 Page
• Italian Basketball
• Trento Bike Pages on taking trains and riding bikes through Italy

News

• L'Unione Sarda" daily italian newspaper on-line
• WWW server de "il manifesto".
• Notiziari Televideo RAI - Italian news
• Edicola (ex Daily-News): Notizie Dall'Italia

Employment

• Italian Job-Net Home Page
• SACLANTCEN: Summer Assistants Underwater summer research assistantships.

Miscelaneous

• Italian General Subject Tree a great page to jump from
• Clickable Map of Italy a great page to jump from

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